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Trump's outgoing advisers did restrain him on some policies, and other actors are still in a position do that. "You look at the Muslim ban, and he was constrained by the judiciary. And you look at his trade arguments, and he's constrained by some of his own people in the White House, but also by…

The fact that anyone is surprised shows how much President Donald Trump's deferential relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin has puzzled the world following allegations that Moscow's interference in the 2016 US election helped put him in power. But Monday's announcement that the US will expel the largest number of Russian diplomats since the Cold…

On March 25, 1965, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led thousands of protesters into Montgomery, Ala., concluding a five-day, 54-mile march from Selma that would become a defining moment in the civil rights movement. On Sunday, inspired by the Selma marchers and the high school students from Parkland, Fla., a group of young people in Wisconsin began a march of…

Brown died Sunday afternoon in Topeka, Kansas, Peaceful Rest Funeral Chapel spokesman Tyson Williams said. She was 75 years old. Brown was 9 years old when her father, Oliver Brown, tried to enroll her at Sumner Elementary School, then an all-white school in Topeka, Kansas. When the school blocked her enrollment her father sued the…

People watch a TV screen showing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Trump at the Seoul Railway Station in South Korea. (Ahn Young-joon/AP) The Trump administration says trade sanctions are undermining the North Korean economy and that the financial squeeze has compelled Kim Jong Un to negotiate. “There’s no question these sanctions…

Toby Davidow was always tight with her mother, Elaine, a part-time nursery school teacher who was “a very kind, nurturing mother and was very optimistic,” according to her daughter. Elaine and Dennis, Toby’s father, were single-minded in their devotion to their only child. All of which makes the story of their relationship during the last…

CLOSE New Orleans Saints and Pelicans owner Tom Benson died at age 90 on Thursday. USA TODAY Sports The New Orleans Saints cheerleaders, the Saintsations, perform at halftime of a 2017 game against the Washington Redskins. (Photo: Derick E. Hingle, USA TODAY Sport) A former NFL cheerleader's photo on her private Instagram account has become…

GLEN ELLYN, Ill. — Control of the U.S. House will be decided in America’s next political battleground of above-ground pools, bike trails and oversized Tudor and Victorian houses full of working professionals like Karrie Sullivan, a Republican voter who cast her primary ballot last week for a Democrat. In a suburb outside of Chicago, Sullivan…

In a ’60 Minutes’ interview that aired on March 25, adult-film actress Stormy Daniels said she was threatened for attempting to tell her story about an alleged affair with Donald Trump in 2006. (Patrick Martin/The Washington Post) Stormy Daniels ramped up her legal battle against President Trump on Monday, alleging in court that his personal…

The stock market surged on Monday—and it really needed to. U.S. stocks are coming off the biggest weekly decline in more than two years, and the aftermath of that drop has market technicians warning that major indexes are on the verge of a full-fledged, technical breakdown. “The extent of the deterioration in equities is very…